urn:taro:utexas.cah.03020A Guide to the Philpott Texana Collection, 1844-1879Original EAD encoding by Bethany Anderson according to TARO 2
EAD 2002 Editing Instructions.
August 2011Finding aid written in English.
Descriptive Summary
Philpott, William A.Philpott Texana Collection1844-1879Materials are written in English.87-0238 itemsDolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at AustinComposed of correspondence, the Philpott Texana Collection, 1844-1879, documents social and political affairs in Texas spanning from the antebellum period to Reconstruction.
Biographical Note

William A. Philpott, Jr., served as secretary of the Texas Bankers Association from 1915 through 1964. In addition to his professional endeavors, Philpott collected Texana, including the letters of Texas revolutionaries and Civil War soldiers over a fifty-year period. By the 1980s, he had amassed nearly 900 items, most of which were sold at an auction in Dallas, Texas, in 1986.

Source:

Ashby, Lynn. Making a bid for Texas history.The Houston Post. October 19, 1986.

Scope and Contents

Composed of correspondence, the Philpott Texana Collection, 1844-1879, documents social and political affairs in Texas spanning from the antebellum period to Reconstruction. Including the letters of Richard T. Archer, James Hall Bell, Richard Bennett Hubbard, Elisha M. Pease, and Fletcher S. Stockdale, the correspondence concerns the bills passed by the Texas Legislature, the Civil War, slavery, and Hood’s Texas Brigade.

Philpott Texana Collection, 1844-1879, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin.

Processing Information

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.